NTF’s 2018 Q1 Accomplishments

We want to thank all our generous members and donors. As a nonprofit organization, it is all of you who help Network Time Foundation produce and maintain the most reliable, secure and trusted open source network time software, which is so vital to the infrastructure of our modern world.

Software Releases & Other Technical Achievements

Released ntp-4.2.8p11.

Released version 1.9 of Linuxptp on 3/31/2018, one year and five months after the previous release. Pushed out tag v1.9 and a tarball on Sourceforge and https://github.com/nwtime/linuxptp.

Added NTS extension field coding.

Phase I of an NTS development contract with the National Metrology Institute of Germany is almost complete and NTS testing has started.

Revenue

Spectracom invoiced for a renewal of its $6K Associate membership, but changed its consortium from NTP to PTP.

4 Individual memberships were renewed.

Donations of In-kind Services and Support

The migration of nwtime.org to AWS by Rooster Glue was completed, which drastically improved page load times and performance. Rooster Glue will be hosting nwtime.org as part of their ongoing contribution.

Signed a SOW and agreement with Symas to upgrade and fix our OpenLDAP instance and improve volunteer, contributor and user experience. For their donation of $50K in LDAP work, we added Symas as an In-kind member.